>The food delivery startups could achieve the same if they paid their delivery drivers fairly They could, but they do everything to give the perception that fo

>The food delivery startups could achieve the same if they paid their delivery drivers fairly They could, but they do everything to give the perception that food delivery is cheap. UberEats takes a 30% cut of the restaurant price. Most of them don't increase their prices in response. They really should consider it (and fortunately, some do), it devalues their offering (and restaurants already work with razor thin margins). Same thing for their drivers salaries. Better to drive it into the ground than paying them a living wage and see a slower adoption as a result. Not sure the quotes around engineers are needed. I have zero sympathy for most of these companies but it is still an engineering challenge to do food delivery at scale.